Laravel proper permissions

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I just tried to change my Laravel project to run on Nginx instead of Apache and can't get the right permissions. Don't really know what to try next. Currently here they are:

I even gave the 777 permission to the storage folder, but nothing works. I have an admin panel on a blog which always keeps throwing

ErrorException in File.php line 190:
chmod(): Operation not permitted

Would really appreciate any help.

I am using Nginx, PHP 7.0, MySQL. The website is written using the Laravel framework.

Sorry I didn't have time to review your answers I will do so today in evening :) — MattJ, Jun 08 '16 at 09:12
Unfortunately none of the answers helped, I still get "chmod(): Operation not permitted" if I try to access the admin panel. It maybe connected to the fact that I use Auth there. — MattJ, Jun 09 '16 at 16:53
Permissions in sub-folders are same as their parent folders. — MattJ, Jun 09 '16 at 17:04
Sorry, I fixed it with giving the www-data the owners place like sudo chown -R www-data /Laravel/Pblog :D But now I can't edit anything, because I am not the owner :D — MattJ, Jun 09 '16 at 17:13
Possible duplicate of [File permissions for Laravel 5 (and others)](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/30639174/file-permissions-for-laravel-5-and-others) — Ryan, May 26 '17 at 21:12

score 22 · Accepted Answer · answered Jun 06 '16 at 04:42

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This will work, as777 is a security risk

 sudo chmod -R o+w storage/

 sudo chmod -R 775 storage/

answered Jun 06 '16 at 04:42

Ganesh Ghalame

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score 12 · Answer 2 · answered Jun 06 '16 at 14:23

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First, check the user assigned in Nginx www conf file /etc/php/7.0/php-fpm.d/www.conf
User may be www-data or _www or any other.

Then change the ownership of the project folder as

sudo chown $USER:www-data -R ~/Laravel/PBlog/

Then Change the file permissions as

sudo chmod u=+srwX,g=+srX,o=rX -R ~/Laravel/PBlog/

s flag means, any file/folder added/created inside the folder will take same permission.

answered Jun 06 '16 at 14:23

Ankit Balyan

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I am having ```user = nobody group = nobody``` what should be chown command for me? – Furquan May 12 '20 at 15:46
you can add user and group. http://nginx.org/en/docs/ngx_core_module.html#user – Ankit Balyan May 12 '20 at 16:23
check https://serverfault.com/questions/534497/why-do-nginx-process-run-with-user-nobody – Ankit Balyan May 12 '20 at 16:24

score 3 · Answer 3 · answered Apr 05 '18 at 09:35

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Depending on how you bootstrapped your project, there is already a 775 flag on the storage folder usually, another easy fix, is to add your web server user to your group using usermod with the -aG options : usermod -aG $USER www-data

answered Apr 05 '18 at 09:35

elgamine

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score 1 · Answer 4 · answered Sep 04 '20 at 12:50

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The shortest way I found to fix it:

sudo chown -R $USER:www-data storage bootstrap/cache

answered Sep 04 '20 at 12:50

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